 What gladsome looks of household love Meet in the ruddy light! There woman's voice flows forth in song, Or childhood's tale is told, Or lips move tunefully along Some glorious page of old.  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 3841827Full view - About this book
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1872 - 264 pages
...forth in song, Or childhood's tale is told ; Or lips move tunefully along Some glorious page of old. The cottage homes of England ! By thousands on her plains, They are smiling o'er the silvery brook, And round the hamlet-fanes. Through glowing orchards forth they peep, Each from its nook of... | |
 | Philip George and son, ltd - 1872 - 262 pages
...forth in song, Or childhood's tale is told ; Or lips move tunefully along Some glorious page of old. The cottage homes of England ! By thousands on her plains, They are smiling o'er the silv'ry brook, And round the hamlet-fanes ; Through glowing orchards forth they peep, Each from its... | |
 | Patrick O'Shea - 1873 - 524 pages
...laid the holy quietness That breathes from Sabbath hours ! Solemn, yet sweet, the church bell's chima Floats through their woods at morn, All other sounds in that still time Of breeze and leaf are borne. 4. The cottage homes of England ! By thousands on her plains, They're smiling o'er the silvery... | |
 | 1873 - 404 pages
...WESLEY BENNETT, PRSL No. I. THE BIRTHPLACE OP THE PHILOSOPHER, AND HOME OP THE CHRISTIAN POETESS. " The cottage homes of England By thousands on her plains, They are smiling o'er the silvery brooks, Through glowing orchards forth they peep, Each from its nook of leaves, And fearless here the lowly... | |
 | Star reciter - 1873 - 330 pages
...forth in song, Or childhood's tale is told ; Or lips move tunefully along Some glorious page of old. The cottage homes of England ! By thousands on her plains, They are smiling o'er the silvery brook, And round the hamlet-fanes : Through glowing orchards forth they peep, Each from its nook of... | |
 | Francis George Heath - Agricultural laborers - 1874 - 314 pages
...orchards.- Surely Mrs. Hemans must have visited this very spot when she wrote the beautiful lines : — " The cottage homes of England, By thousands on her plains, They are smiling o'er the silvery brook, And round the hamlet fanes." There in very truth were the "cottage homes," situated in one of... | |
 | Henry Major - 1875 - 272 pages
...England ! How softly on their bowers Is laid the holy quietness That breathes from Sabbath hours ! Solemn, yet sweet, the church-bell's chime Floats...sounds, in that still time, Of breeze and leaf are born. Tl.e cottage homes of England! By thousands on her plains, They are smiling o'er the silvery brooks,... | |
 | Sourindro Mohun Tagore - English poetry - 1875 - 184 pages
...forth in song, Or childhood's tale is told ; Or lips move tunefully along Some glorious page of old. 60 The cottage homes of England ! By thousands on her plains, They are smiling o'er the silvery brook, And round the hamlet-fanes. Through glowing orchards forth they peep, Each from its nook of... | |
 | T W M - 1876 - 264 pages
...England ! How softly on their bowers Is laid the holy quietness That breathes from Sabbath hours ! Solemn, yet sweet, the church-bell's chime Floats...born. The cottage homes of England ! By thousands OB her plains They are smiling o'er the silvery brooks, • And round the hamlet fanes. Through glowing... | |
 | Code poetical reader - 1877 - 168 pages
...laid the holy quietness That breathes from Sabbath hours ! 20 Solemn, yet sweet, the church-bells' chime Floats through their woods at morn ; All other...breeze and leaf are born. The cottage Homes of England ! 25 By thousands on her plains, They are smiling o'er the silvery brooks,* And round the hamlet-fanes.*... | |
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